† blanketeern.
Obsolete.
1. A person who uses a blanket. One who tosses in a blanket.
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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > tossing in a blanket > one who tosses
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1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iii. iv. 107 God grant there may be neither blankets nor blanketeers.
2. plural. A body of operatives who met at the so-called Blanket Meeting in St. Peter's Fields near Manchester, on 10th March 1817, provided with blankets or rugs, in order to march to London and press their grievances upon the attention of the Government.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > militant person > protester or demonstrator > specific
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1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 9 Aug. 345 These base landlords laughed..at the Blanketteers.
1833 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) VI. 203 The projected expedition of the Blanketeers.
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blankeˈteering n.
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1839 ‘D. I. Moriarty’ Husband-Hunter III. 230 On returning from her blanketeering adventure.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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